NSF and the Office of Naval Research
provided support for the USNS Zeus to recover, cut, terminate and relocate
the HAW-4 cable to Station ALOHA in 2007.

AT&T transferred the HAW-4 fiber optic
telecommunications cable to the Research Corporation of the University
of Hawaii for a nominal fee. Without this in-kind donation and subsequent
support of our work at the Makaha cable station, this project would not
have been possible.

Mark Tremblay (AT&T, retired) and Dave Harris (UH) spent many very long
days in the Makaha Cable Station, troubleshooting the shoreside and underwater
fiber optic connections.

Captain Rick Meyer and the crew of the R/V Kilo Moana provided outstanding
support of the cruise and the ACO deployment operations. Captain Ross
Barnes and the UH Marine Center staff worked hard to accommodate the demanding
logistics.

The Jason group from the WHOI
Deep Submergence Laboratory, led by Matt Heintz, were exceptionally
professional, hardworking, and innovative in contributing to the successful
deployment of the ACO. Their contributions to testing of the fiber optics
in coordination with the group at Makaha helped push the project over
the top.

The SOEST Oceangoing Technology
Group worked hard to support our work, especially with many deck operations
in rough weather and at night.

Teledyne/ODI hosted the March 2010
underwater connector workshop that led to improvements in connector strategies
for ocean observatory work. ODI provided connectors to the project at
substantially reduced cost.

The acoustic micromodem was provided by Lee Freitag (WHOI), funded by
NSF.

SonicWALL provided state-of-the-art
firewalls for the project at a critical point during testing and development
of the ACO. These firewalls enabled us to not only protect the ACO network,
but also facilitated its move from the laboratory, to the ship, and the
transition to testing and operations at the Makaha cable station during
the ACO deployment. Dave Parry provided great encouragement and support.

AdRem provided important support
to the project by donating licenses for us to use their network monitoring
software, NetCrunch 6.5 and 7.3. This real-time network monitoring platform gave
us a consistent interface and many tools to configure, monitor, diagnose
and repair the ACO network as it evolved.

Ben Macone and colleagues at SonTek
provided outstanding technical support during our late-stage upgrades
of ADPs.

Dave Romanko and his colleagues at WET
Labs supported our development work, including the loan of an instrument
for bench work.